Milk-pail.



W. T. 'FRAZIER, E. H. BREWSTER & J. M. HOPFENBBCK.

MILK PAIL.

APPLICATION FILED 001222, 1910.

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To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER '1. FRAZIER, EDWIN H. BREW STER, AND JOHN M. HOPFENBEGK, OF SALTLAKE CITY, UTAH.

MILK-PAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1911.

Be it known that we, VVALTER T. FRAZIER, EDWIN H. BREWSTER, and JOHN M.HOPFEN- BECK, citizens of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City,in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Milk- Pails, of which the following is aspecification.

The purpose of our invention is to provide a milk pail, that is sanitaryand easily kept so, and one that may be used as a stool for the milker.These objects we accomplish by the device illustrated in the acsections.

companying drawings, in which similar figures of reference indicate likeparts throughout the several views.

Figure 1, is a vertical elevation, parts in Fig. 2, is an enlargedsection of the strainer. Fig. 8, is an enlarged plan of the strainercap. Fig. 4:, is an enlarged section of the strainer cap.

As is well known, the unwholesomeness of much of the milk used andoffered for sale is due to the dirt and bacteria that get into the milkas it is being drawn from the cow and strained and cared for at themilking place.

It is our purpose to provide a milk pail, into which the minimum amountof bacteria, carried as dust in the air, can enter; and none of theheavier particles of dirt can fall or be carried into the milk while itis being handled in the milking place. This we have done in our milkpail 1, which is fitted with closure 2, purposely horizontal with saidpail, or a part of it below the plane or the main part of said closure,to attach a handle thereon and to permit the milker to use said pail asa stool. The pail is fitted with a bail 3, and a tipping handle 4. Onthe side of the pail opposite said tipping handle is attached a spout 5,cylindrical in form. In this spout is slidably fitted the lower end ofthe milk receiving spout 6, which has firmly secured thereon and nearthe upper end thereof an enlarged receiver 7, which is cylindrical inform and has a funnel shaped closure as its bottom, and which isconcentrically soldered to said milk receiving spout a short distancefrom its upper end. baid receiver 7, has a hood 8 secured thereon whichcloses one half of said receiver 7. The milking is done through theuncovered portion. A removable strainer 9 is fitted over the upper endof said milk receiving spout. Said strainer is made by covering one endof a band with fine wire cloth and is made removable so that it may bemore easily cleansed. In the lower end on the funnel shaped bottom ofsaid receiver 7, is removably fitted a concavo-convex cap 10, which hasportions of its periphery cut out to allow it to pass lugs 11, which areattached to the inner side of said funnel shaped bottom. More of saidopenings in the periphery of said cap 10 are provided than is necessaryto pass said lugs, for the purpose of providing free passage for themilk around said cap 10 and into the pail through the milk receivingspout 6. The upper end of said milk receiving spout 6 extending as itdoes slightly above the lower end of the funnel shaped bottom forms alodging place for any particles of foreign matter, and a retainer forsaid strainer 9. The said cap 10 covering as it does the opening intosaid strainer and positioned a short distance above it prevents thestream of milk from driving foreign matter of a solid nature throughsaid strainer and into the milk. The telescoping of the milk receivingspout 6 into the spout 5, permits the adjustment of the milk receiver tothe udder of the cow or into convenient proximity thereto for milking.

Having thus described our invention we desire to secure by LettersPatent and claim as novel:

In a milk pail the combination of a pail, a flat closure therefor, atipping handle, a spout opposite thereto, a milk receiving spoutslidably fitted in the upper portion of In testimony whereof We haveaflixed our said spout, a removable strainer adapted signatures inpresence of tWo Witnesses.

to fit over the end of said milk receiving WALTER T. .FRAZIER. spout, aremovable cap positioned above EDWIN H. BREWSTER. said strainer, apartially covered milk re- JOHN M. HOPFENBEOK. ceiver having a funnelshaped bottom, and WVitnesses:

lugs secured thereto adapted to hold said SAM RANEY, cap. W. R.WILLIAMS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washingtoml). 0.!

